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The main issue in this case is determining rightful ownership of the lost money – does it belong to the people who lost it, or to the government or some other entity?

XRP has been trading sideways around $1.40 throughout May, testing investors’ patience. While it’s been consolidating for about 70 days, technical analysis and past patterns suggest a potential for a significant price increase this month.

Armstrong announced the decision in a memo to employees, which he also posted on X (formerly Twitter). The memo, addressed to the entire team, explained that the cuts were due to ongoing instability in the market and the fast development of AI, which is changing the nature of work.

Expansion reports that the group behind the stablecoin is likely to reveal new members soon, as they put the finishing touches on who will be involved. They plan to fully launch the stablecoin in the latter half of 2026.

And what of the XRP Ledger, that grand stage upon which transactions once flourished? It has suffered a blow as cruel as a Chekhovian twist of fate. Payment volume, once a roaring river, has dwindled to a mere trickle, plummeting by 70% to 75% in the blink of an eye. Such a decline, one might say, is the financial equivalent of a once-popular actor being reduced to playing a tree in a school play. Is it a cooldown after a feverish performance, or has the audience simply lost interest? The ledger, designed for payments and settlement, now stands like a grand ballroom with no dancers, its value questioned by the very market it sought to serve.

The chorus of larger-cap alts keeps to the sidelines with polite restraint; ETH and TRX offer modest, almost domesticated gains, while XRP, BNB, and DOGE drift ever so slightly toward the red. HYPE, meanwhile, astonishes the polite by hovering above $43, a number that would scandalize even a well-bred accountant.

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According to an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-a document so dry it could make the Sahara blush-the Dallas-based firm snagged 444 BTC at an average price of $76,307 per coin. CEO Matt Cole, ever the showman, announced the purchase on X, because what’s a bitcoin buy without a little fanfare? This latest addition pushes their total holdings past the 15,000 BTC mark, a number so big it’s practically its own zip code.

Key Takeaways (Because Who Has Time to Read the Whole Thing?):

As a researcher tracking Bitcoin, I’ve observed a significant move recently. After consistently staying above a key support level, Bitcoin increased by 2.2% and finally broke through the $80,000 mark – something we haven’t seen since January. For the past few weeks, the price had been fluctuating between $74,000 and $79,000, and it had struggled to consistently stay above that upper limit, despite several tries.